On Wed Sep 22 16:57:45 2010, Keith Moore wrote:
On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:
> However, sometimes I see posters on some lists fall back on a
simpler form of retaining context, where the unabridged discussion
history gets quoted on all new messages. I don't know if we slip
into this mode out of convenience or because we somehow assume that
the other readers (and their mail tools) on the list are stateless
and have no memory of past events.
My theory is that email user agents have somehow, overall, become
less functional over time in allowing people to quote portions of
previous messages and insert new text into such quoted messages. I
think this actually got worse when it became conventional to
compose messages (and quote replies) in HTML.
Possibly. It's worth noting that format-flowed, for instance, is well
supported and very good at quoting unambiguously, whilst retaining
the flowed text that's a primary driver for HTML email.
Dave.
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